# What are the best ringtones you've heard? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 27, 2005, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719 "2005-09-27T18:31:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/21 "2005-09-28T02:26:51Z")
> [@Lightnin'](#): > > I’ve got the “Yip yip” martians from Sesame Street. Had a hell of a time tracking it down- luckily, though, it’s fairly easy to convert wav files for use as a ringer on the Treo650. > > “_brrrring_ OOOOH! Brr-inng! BRR-INNG! PHONE! Yip Yip!” > > Never fails to make people laugh. I _love_ this. I was on a bus today next to someone whose phone rang with R2D2-type noises. My phone rings with the sound of a very old-fashioned mechanical phoen bell. That one stands out as well. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/22 "2005-09-28T02:35:22Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I _love_ this. > > I was on a bus today next to someone whose phone rang with R2D2-type noises. My phone rings with the sound of a very old-fashioned mechanical phoen bell. That one stands out as well. sssssh! ( [mathcaddy.com is for sale | HugeDomains](http://www.mathcaddy.com/history/2005/04/11/sesame-street-martians/) ) ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/23 "2005-09-28T02:52:55Z")
I used to have the strongbad song from the “japanese cartoon” episode. I want to get the Final Countdown from AD though. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/24 "2005-09-28T04:39:46Z")
The theme from Sanford & Son. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/25 "2005-09-28T05:02:21Z")
I switch between “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and the theme to “Law & Order” depending on what I feel like hearing. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lorinada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5e925/32.png) [@lorinada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorinada)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/26 "2005-09-28T05:57:51Z")
> [@Nutty Bunny](#): > > Well, mine is the best, of course. > > It’s the **Super Mario Bros.** theme. If it rings while anyone is around, I’ll always get a comment about it. > > Yo, I kick it ‘old school’. 🆒 Ha. I was coming on to say I had the coolest one around. The Mario Brothers theme. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/27 "2005-09-28T06:13:59Z")
> [@Unintentionally Blank](#): > > sssssh! ( [http://www.mathcaddy.com/history/2005/04/11/sesame-street-martians/](http://www.mathcaddy.com/history/2005/04/11/sesame-street-martians/) ) Actually, that is not the one I thought of when I read your post. I was thinking of the aliens or monsters or whatever they were, in the skit with the ringing telephone. Something like this: :: brring :: nope, nope, nope, nope :: brrring! :: te—le—phone! yup yup yup yup yup yup :: brrring! :: yup yup yup yup yup ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/28 "2005-09-28T06:27:14Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > My phone rings with the sound of a very old-fashioned mechanical phoen bell. That one stands out as well. That’s what mine does. It was so stupid when I got the phone. It took me 30 minutes of surfing the web with my phone to find a ringtone to download to my phone to make my phone sound like a phone. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/29 "2005-09-28T06:29:57Z")
I have the theme from the “Borat Show,” one of Sascha Baron Cohen’s characters on Da Ali G Show. It usually goes unrecognized, but once I was on a bus when it rang - and two guys cracked up laughing. My advisor, a no-nonsense economist, once heard it ring and said, “Is that from Ali G?” Hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/30 "2005-09-28T06:31:27Z")
Another cool one I had was the opening riff from XTC’s “Love At First Sight.” It gets people’s attention. I also used the opening riff from The Clash’s “London Calling” but it started to grate on me a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/31 "2005-09-28T07:13:11Z")
My phone barks like a Chihuahua when it rings. It’s the closest thing to a pet I can manage right now. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/32 "2005-09-28T11:27:52Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Actually, that is not the one I thought of when I read your post. I was thinking of the aliens or monsters or whatever they were, in the skit with the ringing telephone. > > Something like this: > > :: brring :: > > nope, nope, nope, nope > > :: brrring! :: > > te—le—phone! > yup yup yup yup yup yup > > :: brrring! :: > > yup yup yup yup yup That’s at the last 10-20 seconds of the clip. ---
**Author:** ![Audrey\_Levins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/33 "2005-09-28T11:29:31Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > My general ringtone is “Back in Black” by AC/DC. That’s funny, b/c that’s my ringtone for a friend of mine who’s a big fan of AC/DC. (He wanted “Highway To Hell” but since I like the opening riff of Back in Black better, and I’M the one who has to hear it, I won.) People always seem to begin tapping their feet when they hear it. (Like yours, it’s the actual song, not that horrible synthesized tinkling.) People who call me frequently have their own ringtones, which I rotate before they begin to irritate me. Currently they’re “Get Back” by Ludacris, “Beverly Hills” by Weezer, “Take Me Out” by Franz Ferdinand, and AC/DC as mentioned. I like trying to match the song to the person I assign it to. (“Beverly Hills” girl is actually a huge Celine Dion fan, which is why I don’t ask her what she wants her ringtone to be.) One of my co-workers has the sound of a crying baby as her ring-tone…and it’s amusing for like the first two times you hear it, and after that you want to hit her/smash her phone/kill the imaginary baby, etc. Especially since the baby gets more and more upset the longer you wait to answer the phone. Ditto for those yowling cat ringtones. T-Mobile offers Cake’s “No Phone” as a ringtone, which I keep meaning to download. “No phone, no phone, I just want to be alone today…” ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/34 "2005-09-28T18:32:13Z")
A friend of mine has a very authentic sounding cat’s meow for his. Confuses the hell out of people. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/35 "2005-09-28T18:38:22Z")
You guys DO have some cool tones. My faves so far are Mario and the martians. Sweet! I just have a uhm…i forget what it’s called. One note at a time. Monophonic? Anyway, I had my more musical friend transcribe the opening to “Nothin’ but a G Thang” - you’d recognize it if you heard it. The cool thing is that it sounds very much like the song even though it’s not polyphonic. I like it because I am a very white, very boring, very nerdy girl from Ohio. Most of my friends have no idea what it is but it always makes me giggle when my pocket starts kickin’ it old school. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/36 "2005-09-28T18:38:23Z")
I have the chorus from “Big Yellow Taxi” on mine. Most people like it, or so they say. ---
**Author:** ![Alma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alma)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/37 "2005-09-28T19:15:21Z")
I used to be the person who hated ringtones until I got my new phone. I was bored and surfing around the company website when I found the PERFECT ringtone that I now and forever always will use when my sister calls me. It’s “Yakety Sax,” the Benny Hill theme song. It ROCKS. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/38 "2005-09-28T19:18:50Z")
The guy across the hall from me had this really annoying siren-type ring tone. I couldn’t understand why he would choose that, until I realized it was actually the “red alert” sounds from Star Trek. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/39 "2005-09-29T03:05:32Z")
Brainiac4’s is the theme from Buckaroo Bonzai. I have a Blackberry - ringtones not good on Blackberry. ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719/40 "2005-09-30T01:53:15Z")
I have the riff from Tom Sawyer. You know that part? With the drums? Yeah, that one. I love it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-best-ringtones-youve-heard/323719.md?page=3)